When German soldiers invaded the Polish city of Lodz at the start of World War II, they confined the local Jewish community to a miserable, overcrowded ghetto. Through family connections, a Jewish teenager named Anatol Chari (far left in photo) became a ghetto policeman. Because they were sometimes viewed as collaborators, ghetto policemen who surv...

POLONIA RESTITUTA (Order of the Revival of Poland [Order Odrodzenia Polski])
, Latin designation of a Polish decoration established on February 4, 1921, for
outstanding non-military services on behalf of Polish independence. The Order's
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